DHGF: Transformers Prime: The Game is your typical 3D licensed platformer. It’s a mostly inoffensive linear affair that suffers from not receiving enough time, money or quality put into it. The story is a paint by numbers affair with an homage to an obscure G1 toy that was prominent in the original comic book series. The visuals are hit or miss (great cut scenes, terrible in-game visuals) and it’s nice to see the voice actors for all the characters playing their parts and giving it their all here. Unfortunately the game is too short (four hours or less), too linear and suffers from bad input detection and a terrible camera for it to be recommended at full MSRP. It’s also very easy, so only younger gamers will have any challenge getting through this, even in spite of multiple control issues. If you’re a fan of the cartoon it might be worth it to pick this up but everyone else can feel free to let this one sit on the racks.
Ninetndo Insider writes:
With consumer interest revitalised in Hasbro’s now lucrative IP, Activision once again draw inspiration from the franchise in Transformers Prime: The Game.
Nintendo Life: The long-running Transformers franchise has shifted, morphed and diverged enough to certainly live up to its name since debuting in 1984: the original Generation 1 adored by long-time fans and purists, Beast Wars, a few Michael Bay interpretations and loads of comic books and video games. Much of the fiction's focus nowadays is on the cartoon Transformers: Prime, to which Activision has turned its attention to for a Nintendo-exclusive title that draws on the universe of the eponymous show for a colourful bash-em-up.
From the review: "While the 3DS and Wii versions of the game are exactly the same in terms of the game itself, I’m rating the Wii version a little lower, mainly due to the lack of ingenuity with the motion controls and the multiplayer, each of which could have been done quite a bit better on the Wii version of the game. However, I do still recommend giving it a shot."
